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Many people have left commentary on their profiles so I decided to do so too.

The most interesting subjects of discussion are those that are true but people don't want to hear. I can hear about those kind of things on Youtube more than by watching television. It's the power of the internet. I guess, these days the majority of the so called old media is caring too much about correctness and advertisers.

I'm very much annoyed by advertisement, especially telemarketing and face-to-face marketing, including the corporate clowns in banks and insurance companies. I haven't watched television commercials since the 90's. The contemporary is such that you are contacted by strangers all the time and they all want money. A personal contact is an attempt to cover up the fact that they are not interested in you but your wallet. It is a nasty little lie.

Based on my long-term observations, contrary to widely accepted an overly optimistic belief, my take on people is that they are dishonest until proven otherwise. Trust has to be earned, it is not a given fact. And telling people other than what your real intentions are is a wicked thing to do. However, you don't know personally the phony people who try to sell you things. They are just annoying, nothing more. You see the point if you compare to ureliability of people you know personally. Take as an example someone who stand you up repeatedly. It is malicious dishonesty because it is a personal attack against you as a person.

I have confronted with the question of the origin of morality many times recently. If religion is not the source of morality then what is? The sociological explanation is that a society, people by interaction create such things, not individuals or any authority. It's a simple and elegant theory but surprisingly difficult to understand by many people. Think about norms, and I don't mean written rules like the law or the ten commandments, but all kind of "should do" and "should not to do" things. For example, think about confronting people you don't know in public space. There is a maximum time for how long you are allowed to look someone at the eyes in a bus, on a street or in any other public space. Nobody has thought you that, not even your parents but you can still cope with the social norm and know exactly how long is considered appropriate. This is just a small trivial example of how your actions are not based on anyone's teachings nor your free will either. They are not choices made by individuals alone. There are countless of other things you have to avoid doing or have to do in a certain way, and if you don't, other people would think you are a nutcase. Sociological theories are not merely opinions but evidence-based theories that explain societies, much like Darwin's theory explains the origin of spiecies.

Hmm, what else...

New technology is not always better in all ways. Often people will lower their expectations for quality in favor of new technology, or they were not very high in the first place. Of course, new gadgets appear to be better if the criterias are lowered. I'm also bothered by the excessive use of cheap injection moulded plastic in enclosures of all kind of gadgets in these days, even expensive ones. They are prone to failure in a short time with moderate use. There are also deliberate design flaws, for example, the use of undersized heatsinks.

Don't laugh at old computers. That kind of attitude is ahistorical. 512 kb diskettes were all that were needed in their haydays. Computing power is relative, not absolute. So many times I have heard someone noting that a modern personal computer has so and so much more computing power than the computer in the shuttle has, and the crackpot idea that the computers in the Apollo crafts were so primitive that the moonflights would not have been possible. The analogy is meaningless. Most of the computing power in a personal computer is needed for translating high level commands to lower level and for creating graphics, which are completely irrelevant to controlling essential functions of a spacecraft. Your microwave oven may have a processor with a few MHz clock. That's because the microwave oven has no Windows in it running. There's no point to use more power than necessary for a given job. More is not better. It would only cost more and cause more interference in radio frequencies.

If you are a cinematographer or a director you might be interested in the link below. There are gadgets I have designed.